Quote by Doris Lessing
I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not t

I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint. – Vernon Howard

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. – James Russell Lowell

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